{"id":31095,"date":"2017-03-06T13:59:46","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T12:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.museonicolis.com\/en\/motom-1951-12d\/"},"modified":"2024-07-16T16:32:10","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T14:32:10","slug":"motom-1951-12d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.museonicolis.com\/en\/motom-1951-12d\/","title":{"rendered":"Motom, 1951, 12\/D"},"content":{"rendered":"

Motom “12\/D”, 1951,\u00a0 Italy<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n

The Motom\u00a0represents a piece of Italian motorcycling history<\/strong>. It’s the father of all mopeds<\/strong>, overshadowed too often by the other contemporary mopeds: thanks to it entire generations turned into bikers and discovered the motorcycling world for the first time. It’s also the most enduring one: designed in\u00a01947<\/strong>\u00a0it was sold until 1970,<\/strong>\u00a0when the company went bankrupt, after 31 different versions and 600.000<\/strong> examples produced.
\nThe 1948<\/strong>\u00a012\/A<\/strong> model, the first to be called Motom, was offered at a price of\u00a0152.000 lire<\/strong>. A sizeable amount back then, even bigger than the price of a Lambretta 125.
\nThe prices went down progressively until they reached\u00a095.000 lire<\/strong>\u00a0with the last model Codice, one of the most common. Year after year the Motom was improved even though its true nature remained untouched.
\nFrom the 1951<\/strong>\u00a012\/D model <\/strong>the frame will be made of two halves cut vertically and no longer horizontally, while the 1955 Sport model<\/strong>\u00a0introduced a different fuel tank as a replacement for the “bath soap” one, closing the hole it needed and giving the frame more strength.<\/p>\n\r\n\r\n \r\n